Senator Mitch McConnell filled the amendment tree for the highway bill with one amendment: one that reauthorizes the Export-Import Bank. Ted Cruz let McConnell have it with both barrels in a floor speech, calling him a liar:

Austin, TX, Feb. 2011*

It’s not like the Bad Ones—this is what the Mierenses would come to call them—hadn’t been there already. It’s not like they hadn’t been running their operations out of Mier and the surrounding towns, carrying their loads of cocaine and marijuana through the surrounding brushland and up to the lip of the river, where they placed them on boats or rafts or inner tubes and floated them across into Texas. 3.579 palabras más